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A functional polymorphism of the NFKB1 promoter is not associated with ulcerative colitis in a Spanish population
Javier Oliver1, María Gómez-García, Laura Paco
1Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López Neyra, Granada, Spain.
Background:
This study investigated the influence of the NFKB1-94ins/delATTG in the susceptibility/phenotype to ulcerative colitis.
Methods:
We analyzed the distribution of -94ins/delATTG NFKB1 in 258 patients and 264 healthy controls from southern Spain by a polymerase chain reaction-fluorescent method.
Results:
The genotype and allele frequencies of -94ins/delATTG did not significantly differ between patients and controls. In fact, the frequency of the -94delATTG allele was almost identical in both groups (34.8% and 35.4%, respectively), and the del/del genotype was underrepresented in UC patients (11.2% versus 14%). In addition, no association of this polymorphism was found with any of the clinical parameters analyzed.
Conclusion:
These results suggest that the NFKB1 -94ins/delATTG gene variation, previously associated with UC susceptibility in North Americans, does not influence either susceptibility or phenotype of UC in the Spanish population.
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